Daniel Thau wrote: > Attached is a patch to add an 'autotextobject' setting which will treat > undefined text-objects like quote text objects, using the provided > character as bounds. For example, with this setting if a user enters > "di," with the cursor between two commas, the text between the commas > will be removed. This is very useful for editing lists. Similarly, if > one is composing TeX being able to quickly operate on the area between > dollar signs is useful. If one is editing snake_case_variables, being > able to do a quick "ci_" is also nice. The key here is that it happens > on-the-fly with all as-of-yet-undefined objects without requiring the > user consider every possible character he/she would be interested in > ahead of time. > > Outside of documentation and adding the setting itself, the it is only a > few additional lines of code. > > I've wanted this feature for a while; if there is anything else I should > do to help get it upstreamed do let me know and I'll see what I can do.
The problem is that this only works for characters that are not taken yet. Thus if we add another text-object type the behavior changes. It's like reserving all remaining characters to use for this feature. I don't think this can be done properly without adding another character, thus making the text selection a three-character operation. -- Looking at Perl through Lisp glasses, Perl looks atrocious. /// Bram Moolenaar -- b...@moolenaar.net -- http://www.Moolenaar.net \\\ /// sponsor Vim, vote for features -- http://www.Vim.org/sponsor/ \\\ \\\ an exciting new programming language -- http://www.Zimbu.org /// \\\ help me help AIDS victims -- http://ICCF-Holland.org /// -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
